Heritiera elata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera elata Ridley

Protologue: Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Straits Br. 50: 112 (1908).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: dungun bukit
• Thailand: thong suk, ngonkai-khao (Nakhon Si Thammarat), ngonkai-bok (Surat Thani).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo; possibly also Thailand.

Uses

The timber is occasionally used as mengkulang.

Observations

• A fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall with bole up to 75 cm in diameter and large buttresses.
• Leaves simple, densely scaly beneath, petioles 0.5-2.5 cm long, stout.
• Panicles lax, up to 10 cm long.
• Fruit almond-shaped, with a fairly small apical wing, glabrous.

H. elata is apparently rare and occurs in lowland forest, especially on ridges and slopes of hills.

Selected sources

33, 102, 146, 378, 779.

Main genus page

• Heritiera

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)